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6/13/2013 5:03PM

Women’s Rights in India: "Sex Selection..."

For the e-book release of “Crimes Against Women: Three Tragedies and the Call for Reform in India,” The panel responds to an audience question regarding the role of pre-natal sex selection in societies with a high rate of violence against women.

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... you're excited sex selection is a problem in India ... article you in the book ... he talked about the disparity practice on about how it's grown over time ... to eight hundred two thousand birds was the difference ... and and so the scientific research they cited was saying that ... that actually can lead to greater balance in societies when it's twenty years of age and ... gender imbalance ... and ... I wanted to get just your opinion on it is that teething areas ... credence to that that there is ... and that does leaves you actually more violence in society is enough if that's the case then what hope for India because ... there is such a huge pile Mike and we are seeing that it's that Yum Lovell ... how you crack that in society or for longer term ... I ... yes we did ... I mean me is seen as an SEC selection found in China ... also the same thing and what ... what immediately the CIA to human rights organization is trafficking ... of women setting up Brian and had this to come I should sex tape booms as bad as the bright tree ... so that they mediate manifestation then I mean if within a point south mending extremely frustrated what I didn't do as he was saying they'd is no way of finding ... me ... I'm ... and I believe that section finances on the rise as a result of that but then most immediate things BCEI trafficking ... of brides are ... that in that gets to adjust the steel why six election happens in the fast pace it is I mean that's the it's your eye ... that but but but she was asking is that is the guise of violence against him and as it is not going to stay in that incident and that ... forget that it's unlawful to do this ... to happen so Noah laws not the ons ... said its expanded its nice to have done that the laws alone cannot solve such societies ... you have six elective abortion is because we men on considered to be an economic liability for the pit straight ... and so that the Guizhou Seachange women have to be turned into an acid from liability when actually I find fascinating about the story that boy bed ... was that because of sex addict of abortion ... because the women on knowledge gets them on the use of custom ... on ... there was actually the bursting of the given him by huddling ... two of you know to this woman whom he added which you know is going on in the lead I had never heard of the year ... when demand is for the one that he and Maddie high ... and up to see you know some guy ends up you know the end of the sins of the cottages ... that use them for the backlash and a foreign ... protective mechanisms and you might see something like that and polluting in India ... you know automatically on Gannett the middle of the next fifteen years